Protecting Our Planet: 5 Strategies for Reducing Plastic Waste

Photo caption: Plastic pollution covers Accra beach in Ghana, West Africa. Photo credit: Muntaka Chasant via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0. Article by Olga Rukovets. Columbia Climate School: State of the Planet – April 8, 2024.

Plastics are ubiquitous in our world, and given that plastic waste can take thousands of years to break down, there’s more of it to be found on Earth every single day. Worse yet is the fact that the stuff doesn’t easily decompose—it mostly just disintegrates into smaller and smaller pieces. These tiny particles, called microplastics, have found their way to all parts of our […]

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